The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. Logan, 1t Is said, has written
novel describing Washington society
The Montana Legislature has raised
the cage Of protection" for girls to III
teen years.
Women are employed on the stat
OF more than 200 newspapers in tn,
United States.
Mrs. Mary Hewitt has Just passed
her eighty-ninth birthday, and is in
excellent health.
Bills for the protection OF girls arr
pending in tina Legislatures Of Penn
sylvania and New Jersey.
The dies have carried of three
fourihs of the honors in the junior
class of Colby University.
A bill requiring the appointment o.
police matrons has been reported in
the Massachusetts Legislature.
The Car has sent the Queen Of
Holland the grand cross for the 20 0r
der for Women" founded by Peter
the Great.
R&a Bonheur's famous pain ing
"The Horse Fair" has been presented
to the Museum OF Art in New York by
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The women OF Los Angeles, Gal,
have completed large and commo'
dious "Women's Home" for depend.
ent and deserving women.
John Wanamaker, OF Philadel.
phie, is going to build q workingwo.
mems hotel. A few weeks ago he
signed the women suHrsgs petition.
Mile. Maria Dersismes is aid to be
the only woman FCeemsson in France.
She is good speaker, a terpe writer
and strong advocate OF suffrage for
women.
A Doctors wife 10 DIvorshire, L 4
land, supplies choice ferns at a low
but remunerative price, sending them
by psrcsl post all over the United
Kingdom.
The woman who lives with man
1855 days in year ia not going to be
degraded 10 any alarming extent by
voting with him on the 365th.-To
peka Capital.
Frances +. Wizards book, Woman
and temperance, is being translated
into Japa nese by Sho Nemoto, bril-
liant young Japanese student at Yer
mont College.
Mime. Garibaldi, widow Of the liber-
stor, lives in quiet street OF Turin
the walls Of her little parlor covered
with fl ,gs, medals and other memen-
toes Of her husband.
Mrs Louisa Knapp, who now edits
the Ladies Eora6 Journal, at q salary Of
$4,000 year, did her first editorial
work on the household department Il
the Tribune and Farmer.
Harriet Prescott Spoffo d says that
the nearest approach to salon to be
found ia this country is afforded by
the Saturday evening receptions OF
Mics Mary L. Booth, OF Harper's BG
ear.
Two sisters OF George W. Cable, the
novelist, have moved to Northampton,
Mass in order to live near him. They
support themselves by keeping board.
ers. They are said TO be very charm.
ing and accomplished women.
Mrs. Hendricks receives vast mum
Der of begging visitors. Some Of them
ask for autographs or photographs oil
her dead husband. One woman, on
the ground that che is the mother Of
triplets, writes for money to buy Q
COW.
Miss Susan Wood, B. &c., hiss OF.
tanned the teachers diploma in the
art, theory and history OF education al
London University. Only eight mel
and two women have obtained this
diploma since the examination W {
instituted,
A lady who had lived in the Hawai-
ian Islands noticed that the California
climate was much like that OF Hawaii,
and sent for some banana plants for n
experiment. The result has been sue
cessipl, and banana raising promise 8
to become 3 aour;shins California in
dustry.
A society has been Organise among
Japsnote womtn to cultivate tss Q
for foreign cooking. Many Japanese
women Of good birth are invited to
dinner by Europeans in Yokohama,
Toxic and Nagasski, and they find it
very difficult to accept the hospitali-
ties offered.
Mrs. Elizabeth billiard, OF Iowa,
Mrs. Margaret Arnold, OF Ohio, and
Mrs. Susan Bailey, OF Dakota, are sis
ters. The first is liz years old, the
second 100 and the third 96, making a
total OF BIZ years for these three re-
n arkable women.
The latest news from Kansas gives
the number Of women who regis cred
in Lesvenworth as 1858. But none OF
the papers which have been scattering
broadcast the statement that lees thac
800 women registered on that day
have corrected their mis-statement, 30
far as we have seen.
A French woman's rights journal,
the Cheyenne, suggests that the places
OF inspectors Of meat markets should
be given to women. Women, 1t says,
buy the meat and cook 1t, and should
know more about its quality than the
inexperienced gentlemen who are
sometimes appointed.
The advocates OF woman suffrage
have often publicly challenged les OPP
ponents to find two persons in all Wy
omiDg Territory who will assert, over
their own pames and addressss, that
woman suffrage there has had any
bad results. The opponents have
hitherto failed TO respond.
Mrs. Blanche H sard, the widow Of
SAMUEL Hazard, author OF Pen Picturs
of Cuba, makes a living for herselt
and two boys by painting on china
She recently completed dinner sat
for the wife of one OF the foreign
Ministers, and she now has half a
dozen orders from Washington for sets
Of plates.
Mary O emmer once entered into
contract to write a column day on
pny subject assigned her. She never
failed for a day to fulfill her tack,
which included every sort of sutjeci,
from book reviews and political arti-
cles to a common advertising psrS-
graph. During the last year OF this
contract she received a salary Of $1,000.